Item: Internet Makes Man’s Life Slightly Better

Isn’t the internet occasionally so damned useful, that you just thank the heavens for it? There I was, sitting at my desk, doing research into how to sue God, and listening to an NPR podcast. The DJ, a man who sounds like one of those liberal elite academics that right wing Americans are always complaining about, introduces a track called “Mermaid Avenue???.

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Hope

Hope. I had a better essay prepared almost immediately after the Bishop asked me to write it. It was well written, well scriptured – and it was something I was hiding behind.

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What Tuppenceworth.ie is about

Dawn over Coolock Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. Hello all. For some of you, Tuppenceworth is probably this blog- which is mostly myself and Fergal's collected ruminations on matters of greater or lessor significance to ourselves.

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Puppet Man

My mother worked at a doctor’s office while I was in sixth grade. She would bring home syringes with the needles broken off for us to play with. Draw up a few cc’s of water and it’d shoot like a squirt gun.

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Irish Voter Registration Form

I've mentioned before that the number of seats with a winning margin of less than 500 doubled from the 1997 election to the 2002 one- from 9 to 18. Of those, in the last election, two were decided by less than 10 votes. That means that your vote, and the votes of your family and friends, may be enough to tip the election one way or another next year.

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D’Lefties Lair Library Revealed

D'Lefties Lair Library Revealed Originally uploaded by Editor_Tupp. As part of the Great Library Thing Goldrush, a suggestion was made that 'the Disillusioned Lefties’ secret lair is a book-lined, wood-panelled den with leather armchairs and decanted brandy always to hand.

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